vade-mecum

It's rather good: a sort of vade-mecum for the spiritually inclined.

As if winining all those Gramophone awards wasn't enough... Jessica 2008

Avec «Archives ouvertes : quinze ans d'histoire », elle propose, plutôt qu'une simple chronologie un peu fastidieuse, un « vade-mecum de survie » au bibliothécaire ou au documentaliste souhaitant s'impliquer dans des projets basés sur ces concepts ou, tout simplement, s'en tenir informé.

Hélène Bosc Heather Morrison 2006

But from the opening line, it is easy to detect, lurking behind the public-spirited vade-mecum, the intimate confessions of a fetishist.

"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists 2004

Not a rambling, hap-hazard collection but a vade-mecum for youth from the ages of six or seven to sixteen or seventeen.

Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Constance D'Arcy Mackay

'Complete Letter-Writer,' my vade-mecum, which goes into such charming details, can not help me.

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

It is really a _vade-mecum_, small, cheap, and useful to a degree no one can fully appreciate until it has been thoroughly tried.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

It is a good _vade-mecum_ for a voyage round either Cape; its digressive character suits the listless mood of the sea-goer, and he can drop, we will not say the thread, but the entanglement, in whatever watch he pleases.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

To a _native_ of the west of England this volume will be found a vade-mecum of reference, and assist the reminiscence of well-known, and too often unnoted peculiarities and words, which are fast receding from, the polish of elegance, and the refinement of literature.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

The former cannot, at the tender age of his professional life, digest the ponderous masses of ocular lore which adorn the shelves of the maturer student's library; and the latter, while he is glad to have these elaborate works at his command for reference, is refreshed by a perusal of a few pages of the more unpretending, but not less valuable _vade-mecum_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

I measured it with my stick — the gentleman-scout's vade-mecum, I call it — it's marked off in inches.

Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923